Carmella Van Vleet is a former kindergartner teacher who has been writing full-time for the last seventeen years. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Highlights for Children, Parents, Writer’s Digest and Scholastic Instructor. She is the author of seventeen books for both kids and adults including GREAT ANCIENT EGYPT PROJECTS YOU CAN BUILD YOURSELF (Nomad Press), AMAZING BEN FRANKLIN PROJECTS YOU CAN BUILD YOURSELF (Nomad Press) and the middle grade novel ELIZA BING IS (NOT) A BIG, FAT, QUITTER (Holiday House), a Spring 2014 Junior Library Guild Selection and 2015 Christopher Award winner.

Books by Carmella Van Vleet

To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space

Written by Carmella Van Vleet and Dr. Kathy Sullivan with illustrations by Nicole Wong - Biography, Children's 5-8, Travel, Women's History